Matthew Perry's assistant sentenced to 41 months in prison
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The 'Dateline' correspondent said “angry is an understatement” after Perry’s assistant was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in the actor’s ketamine-related death
Kenneth Iwamasa, the longtime assistant of the late actor Matthew Perry, has been sentenced to just over three years in prison for his role in the actor’s death. Iwamasa previously had pleaded guilty in 2024 after he admitted that he injected Perry with ketamine three days before he died.
Perry’s longtime assistant Kenneth Iwamasa was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his involvement in the actor’s fatal overdose
The new Peacock documentary 'Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy' unpacks what led to Perry's overdose death in October 2023 Frazer Harrison/Getty Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy reveals the amount of ketamine allegedly in the actor's body prior to his death
New court updates in the Matthew Perry case outline major developments from the sentencing hearing, focusing on legal accountability and the ongoing impact of the ketamine overdose investigation.
Lisa Calio, who worked for the "Friends" alum for close to three decades, wrote a letter to the judge ahead of Kenneth Iwamasa's sentencing hearing.
Two months after Matthew Perry died at age 54 in October 2023, his death was ruled an accident. But that ruling proved to be far from the end of the story. A December 2023 toxicology report concluded that Perry died from "the acute effects of ketamine.